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What happens to a book before it is published? Much was happening, in the past, as in evident from the above citation.

But now with the emergence of the blogosphere, a book in its formation stage is being read by 1000 editors, not all of them are professional. A researcher, at Institute for the Future of the Book, looks deep into these prospects!!!

It is, in short, still all-ado-about a book in its embryonic (or pre-production) Stage? Will there be no need of ghost editors? Will the Book Acquisition Department in publishing houses get shrinked? And more questions may now pop up.

While most scholarly books are reviewed by a few carefully chosen experts before publication, McKenzie Wark's latest monograph is getting line-by-line critiques from hundreds of strangers in cyberspace, many of whom know absolutely nothing about his academic field. continue reading

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